For those of you who don’t know, there will be two ticketed events at the Writers’ Festival this year. The first is the Reading-Performance by Jennifer Nettles in Presser Hall on Thursday, March 31st at 8pm. The second is the Q & A with Jennifer Nettles, Danzy Senna, and Arda Collins in Lower Evans, on Thursday, March 31st at 1pm. Tickets are currently available for Agnes Scott College Students at the Alston Information Desk and Read more
Arda Collins’s collection of poems, It Is Daylight, won the 2008 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize. Judge Louise Gluck describes the volume as “a book of astonishing originality and intensity, unprecedented, unrepeatable.” Her poems have recently appeared in The New Yorker, American Poetry Reviewand A Public Space. A former Glenn Schaeffer Fellow at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she is pursuing a Ph.D. in poetry at the University of Denver. Check out some of her work on the Poetry Read more
I just finished updating the look of the site with the publicity poster that we’re using this year. What do you think? Want to see the whole thing? I think it looks great! Today is the first day of the Spring semester which means the Writers’ Festival is going to be here before you know it. Can’t wait!
Jennifer Nettles is a triple crown-winning song writer with “song of the year at the Academy of Country Music Awards and the Country Music Association Awards and then best country song at the Grammys” in 2009. We’ve never had a songwriter headline the Festival before, so this is a real treat! Nettles interviewed with Washington Post’s J. Freedom du Lac in their “Post Rock” section. When asked what it feels like to win country’s triple crown Read more
For those who are snowed-in in the Atlanta area, here’s an excerpt from Danzy Senna’s “Mulatto Millenium”… Here. Hope everyone is safe and sound on this cold, snowy day!
After the release of Where Did You Sleep Last Night in 2009, Danzy Senna did an interview with SmithMag on her memoir. Below is an excerpt from the interview on how she chose the name for her memoir. When did you first hear the folk song “Where Did You Sleep Last Night?” Why did you choose it for your title? Many years ago I heard the haunted Leadbelly song, “Where Did You Sleep Last Night Read more
Hello all you litlovers out there! Happy New Year! Here’s to kicking off the semester right and getting started with some Writers’ Festival Guest Profiles! But before I get ahead of myself…Do you know who the guests are this year? As the lovely Agnes Scott Website describes them, they are as follows. Danzy Senna: Danzy Senna is the bestselling author of the novels Caucasia, and Symptomaticand the memoir Where Did You Sleep Last Night?: A Personal History. Her Read more
Now that you’ve got all your creative writing submitted to the contest check out this event at Agnes Scott tonight! Natasha Trethewey is author of Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, and three collections of poetry, Domestic Work, Bellocq’s Ophelia, and Native Guard—for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. She is the recipient of NEA, Guggenheim, Bunting, and Rockefeller fellowships. At Emory University she is Professor of English and holds the Read more
Hello again! Don’t forget! Tomorrow, November 15th is the deadline for the Writers’ Festival competition. For more info see http://www.agnesscott.edu/events/writersfestival/creativewritingcompetition.aspx The contest is open to all college and university students in Georgia. Each year students have the opportunity to submit their written works for recognition at the Writers’ Festival. The categories are: Creative Non-fiction Fiction Poetry Playwriting Songwriting! Deadline is Midnight, November 15th, 2010. (That’s tomorrow!) Submit to writersfestival@agnesscott.edu: In the email include name, address, phone number, school, categories Read more
Hello, hello once more to all you literary lovers out there! I’m back to kick off the Annual Agnes Scott College Writers’ Festival this year. The Festival takes place at the end of March 2011, but right now we have some big news over here! We are currently accepting submissions for the Writers’ Festival CONTEST!The contest is open to all college and university students in Georgia. Each year students have the opportunity to submit their written works for recognition Read more
